理工類A級:概括大意Womens Rights Movement
1. Womens rights are guarantees of political, social, and economic equality for women in a society that traditionally gives more power and freedom to men. Among these rights are control of property, equality of opportunity in education and employment, right of voting, and freedom of marriage. Today, complete political, economic, and social equality with men remains to be achieved.
2. Male control was obvious from the time of the earliest written historical records, probably as a result of mens role in hunting and warfare. The belief that women were naturally
weaker and inferior to men was also found in god-centered religions. Therefore, in most traditional societies, women generally were at a disadvantage. Their education was limited to learning domestic skills, and they had no access to positions of power. A woman had no legal control over her person, her own land and money, or her children.
3. The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, which caused economic and social progress, provided a favorable climate for the rise of womens rights movement in the late 18th and the19th century. In 1848 more than 100 persons held the first womens rights convention in New York, and the feminists demanded equal rights, including the vote.
4. In the late 1960s women made up about 40 percent of the work force in England, France, Germany, and the United States. This figure rose to more than 50 percent by the mid-1980s. A commission under the President was established in 1960 to consider equal opportunities for women. Acts of Congress entitled them to equality in education, employment, and legal rights. In 1964 the Civil Rights Act, initially intended only for blacks, was extended to women.
5. The objectives of the womens movement included equal pay for equal work, federal support for day-care centers, recognition of lesbian (女性同性戀) rights, making abortion legal, and the focus of serious attention on the problems of forced sex relations, wife and child beating, and discrimination against older and minority women.
1、 Paragraph 2_______.
2、 Paragraph 3_______.
3、 Paragraph 4_______.
4、 Paragraph 5_______.
A Goals
B History of Womens Rights Movement
C Start of womens Rights Movement
D Traditional Status of Women
E Rights of Women
F Development
5、 In some religions, women were considered .
6、 Traditionally the law did not allow women to have the control over .
7、 Womens rights moment started in the .
8、 Acts of Congress gave women the rights of .
A late 18th century
B equal education and employment with men
C weaker and lower in social position
D early20th century
E her children
F the rights of voting
答案:1. D2. C3. F4. A5. C6. E7. A8. B
解析
1. D 第二段主要描述了傳統女性在社會和生活中的卑微的地位。
2. C 第三段主要講了在社會進步的過程中,女性開始爭取應有的權利。有代表性的例子。
3. F 第四段主要說的是:隨著時間的發展,女性地位的提高有了新的進步和發展。
4. A 第五段主要介紹的是女性希望獲得的權利列表。
5. C 第二段的第二句說,在基督教義中可以找到女性天生怯弱的信條。
6. E 第二段的最后一句說,對于自己本人,自己的土地和金錢,還有她的孩子,一個女人沒有法定的控制權利。
7. A 第三段的第一句說,工業革命和啟蒙運動為女性在18世紀的晚期和19世紀女權運動提供了一個良好的環境。說明了女權運動在18世紀后期開始。
8. B 通過第四段的倒數第二句可知,法案給予了女性接受教育和工作的權利。